Team
[tiːm] or [tim]
Definition
(noun.) two or more draft animals that work together to pull something.
(noun.) a cooperative unit (especially in sports).
(verb.) form a team; 'We teamed up for this new project'.
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Definition
(n.) A group of young animals, especially of young ducks; a brood; a litter.
(n.) Hence, a number of animals moving together.
(n.) Two or more horses, oxen, or other beasts harnessed to the same vehicle for drawing, as to a coach, wagon, sled, or the like.
(n.) A number of persons associated together in any work; a gang; especially, a number of persons selected to contend on one side in a match, or a series of matches, in a cricket, football, rowing, etc.
(n.) A flock of wild ducks.
(n.) A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto.
(v. i.) To engage in the occupation of driving a team of horses, cattle, or the like, as in conveying or hauling lumber, goods, etc.; to be a teamster.
(v. t.) To convey or haul with a team; as, to team lumber.
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Definition
n. a number of animals moving together or in order: two or more oxen or other animals harnessed to the same vehicle; a number of persons associated for doing anything conjointly playing a game &c.—v.t. to join together in a team: to give work to a gang under a sub-contractor.—adj. Teamed (Spens.) arranged in a team.—n. Team′ster one who drives a team.—adv. Team′wise like a team harnessed together.
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Examples
- They had generally made their escape with a team or two, sometimes a yoke of oxen with a mule or a horse in the lead. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- For them stage-coaches will have become romances--a team of four bays as fabulous as Bucephalus or Black Bess. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Mr. Philander dropped the professor's arm, and broke into a mad orgy of speed that would have done credit to any varsity track team. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- They recuperated rapidly, however, and proved a good team to break up the ground with. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- A teamster would select at the picket rope five animals of nearly the same color and general appearance for his team. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- A team of horses couldn't draw her back now; the bolts and bars of the old Bastille couldn't keep her. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- All being ready, the hold would be slackened and the team started. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The terms of the truce had been violated before, when teams had been sent into the city to bring out supplies for the army. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Thirty wagons also, counting two two-horse or mule teams as one, will be allowed to transport such articles as cannot be carried along. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I would also reduce the number of guns to a battery, or the number of batteries, and put the extra teams to the guns taken. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The savages in South Africa match their draught cattle by colour, as do some of the Esquimaux their teams of dogs. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- For the conveniences of forage, the teams for supplying the army were kept at Harper's Ferry. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Iron was secured by sending teams around the neighborhood to pick up scrap, and when the scrap iron was all cleaned up, fresh metal was brought from ore beds in Oneida County. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It soon set in raining again however, and in a very short time the roads became practically impassable for teams, and almost so for cavalry. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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